Les livres liturgiques du diocèse d'Elne
- Autores: Robert Amiet
- Localización: Revista catalana de teología, ISSN 0210-5551, Vol. 7, Nº. 1-2, 1982, págs. 279-302
- Idioma: francés
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Resumen
The small Diocese of Elne, formerly part of Catalonia before it became French in 1659, was until the French Revolution of 1789 suffragant to the Archdiocese of Narbonne. As al1 travellers between France and Spain had to cross it it is no wonder that its Romano-Frankish liturgy, abolished in 1575, was closely related to that of its powerful metropolitan church and the neighbouring Diocese of Carcassone, Girona and Urgell. Naturally various loca celebrations, rites, feasts and prayers were added to the common ritual, and it is very interesting to study these liturgical additions which freely developed until the XV!h century in the surnptuous setting of the Cathedral Church of Sainte Eulalie d'Elne, then around the Collegiate Church of St. John the Baptist at Perpignan, which became the Episcopal See in 1602. Oddly enough, scholars do not seem to have taken an interest in the liturgy of this Diocese until recently. It is the revival of the ccnational feelingm in Catalonia which led liturgists to give their attention to this particular component of religious and spiritual life there. But to this end it was necessary to bring out of the dark al1 the records that have reached our age. The following Catalogue answers this purpose and the reader will realize it is a rich harvest indeed: 34 manuscripts (eight of which are just fragments) and 9 printed texts. They make it possible to piece together the major elernerits of the Romano-Frankish liturgy in the Diocese of Elne, also farnous from an archaeological point of view for its many pre-romanesque and romanesque churches, which seern to outdo each other in interest and crown this small Diocese beautifully.
